I do honestly feel that every citizen in our State should receive equal treatmentthe same treatment as citizens in our sister States. Mr. Chairman. this bill in addition to being unconstitutional is most obviously a punitive measure aimed at a few Statesto take away the right of the State of Mississippi to have literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. and not to take that right away from the State of New York or Texas--is committing the very same injustice that the proposed bill is supposed to prohibit. Mr. George Meany. president of the AFLCIO. recently appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to speak in behalf of the voter rights bill.
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